Forecast: A Cold Front True to its Name

By
Camden Walker

Another nippy weekend

Behind the cold front that passed through yesterday evening, wind chills in the teens this morning will make you wish you had two scarves on. Sure, winds will slacken by sunset, but temperatures will not rise out of the 30s. A reprieve later in the weekend? If you call average high temperatures in the low 40s a welcome break, well... enjoy.

TODAY

Crisp, clear, windy. Mid 30s. Sunrise will be radiant, but very chilly during your morning commute. Winds will average above the 10mph mark today, so I would be sure to grab your winter coat and full cold-weather gear even if it looks warm outside during the afternoon. Overnight it will still be cold and dry with some increase in high clouds. Expect low temperatures around 25 downtown, perhaps near 20 outside the beltway.

TOMORROW

Mostly cloudy, near 40. Temperatures rising through the 30s will feel fairly bone chilling, but perhaps not quite bitter. Still, gloves and a sweater seem like a good choice. Precipitation chances are low, so you will not need to worry about carrying an umbrella. Overnight, temperatures will hover near freezing. A weak weather disturbance passing by could produce some patches of light snow or flurries.

Keep reading for the forecast through the remainder of the weekend & beyond...

SUNDAY

Cloudy, AM flurries? Low 40s. There's a slight chance for some spotty light snow in the morning; however, skies should become partly sunny in the afternoon with high temperatures in the 40s. Stay tuned to The Gang this weekend, to see just what--if any-- precipitation heads into our area Saturday night into Sunday morning.

A LOOK AHEAD

Monday will warm up into the middle and upper 40s under mostly sunny skies. Tuesday will be cloudy with rain showers and high temperatures near 50. During both Monday and Tuesday, anticipate some slight breeziness out of the southerly direction ahead of another cold front slated to cool things back down mid-week.

The 12z NAM "hot off the press" continues to support a strong storm, both surface and aloft, off the Va.- Md. coast early next week which will suppress warming potential. Precip. from this system should remain mostly offshore. If not for this system, we would have likely witnessed "blowtorch" heat to near 60 degrees in the Mon.-Tue period.

Regarding the chance of a little light snow tomorrow, the latest NAM is a little more robust with qp potential west of the Allegheny front, but wrings out the moisture crossing the mts.

"Same old, same old" both in the weather outlooks and the current Presidential campaigns. In sum, Tuesday is fixin' to be rainy while dry air with every cold wave cuts off snow chances down here (and Hillary begins to run off with the Democratic nod!)

Not a good way to give us a dose of weather excitement or bring the change so desparately needed to our political landscape.